Sprint and Clearwire have characterized LTE as complimentary to WiMAX time and again, though if which doesn’t reduce your suspicions of traitor strategy in a wireless data space, take it from Sprint CEO Dan Hesse’s lips. “Our 4G plan is WiMAX, full stop!” he told GigaOM, adding which LTE isn’t indispensably on Sprint’s roadmap. Quizzed about WiMAX partner Clearwire’s LTE trials, however, he forsaken the really appealing spirit about the probable figure of phones to come: “We have so most spectrum which you motionless to do tests so in case we have multi-modal phones with alternative air interfaces, you can supplement LTE on tip of WiMAX as well as run both networks,” he told the announcement. Dual-mode WiMAX / LTE smartphone, anyone?

Via Engadget